Hand-lever



UNTTED STATES PAN T OFFTCE.

EDWARD J'. DURANT, OF LEBANON, NE\V HAMPSHIRE.

HAND-LEVER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 24,202, dated May 31, 1859*.

T o all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. DURANT, of Lebanon, in the county ofGrafton and State of New Hampshire, have invented an ImprovedCompound-Leverage Car-Mover, which is especially designed to aid in theremoval of cars from place to place in and about railway stations; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a partof this specication.

My improved compound-leverage carmover is composed of a forked shaft a,a sliding head-piece b, an intermediate lever c, and a hand lever 6l, orthe substantial equivalents of said parts, united to each other in themanner represented in the accompanying drawings, or in any other mannerby which the same eect may be produced in substantially the same manneras that which I shall now proceed to describe.

The respective parts of my improved carmover may be made of any suitablematerial, and the head-piece Z), may be combined with the forked shafta, by any means which will allow the former to slide freely upon thelatter. The hand-lever cl, is pivoted to the shaft a, and the short endof said lever is connected to the sliding head-piece I), by means of theintermediate lever c, or by any other means which will enable the saidlever to exert the requisite degree of force upon the said head-piece.

'Ihev manner of operating my improved car-mover is clearly representedby Fig. 4, the said car-mover being represented in an inclined position,the forked lower end of its shaft a, resting upon one of the rails f,(of. a track), the fianched outer end of the sliding-head piece Z),bearing against the after beam (g,) of a car-body, and the hand-lever d,being in the most convenient position to be operated by a person walkingbetween the rails of a track or along the outer sides of the same. Itwill therefore be perceived that the force which one man can exert uponthe lever d, of the said car-mover, will be amply sufficient to start acar and to move it to any desired position within or near a railwaystation. The head of the car-mover being attached to the after end of acarbody by means of the hook e, or by any other suitable device, and thelower end of the .shaft a, being of such a forked shape that will followa rail and glide freely over the same in a forward direction, at thesame time that it cannot be pushed in a backward direction along saidrail, it will be perceived that the said car-mover, when it is once.attached to a car-body, will keep itself in the proper position to beoperatedl by a person either walking between the rails of a track oralong the outer sides of said rails.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Combining the forked-shaft a, with the sliding head-piece Y), theintermediate lever c, and thehand-lever CZ, in such a manner as to forma compound-leverage car-mover that can be operated substantially asherein set forth.

The above specification of my improved handler for facilitating themoving of cars from place to place in and about railway stations, signedand witnessed this 28th day of March 1859.

I EDWARD J. DURANT. Witnesses:

ABRAHAM PUSHER, A. H. CRAssni.

